How To Start Reading Books Again (Encore)

How To!

Slate Magazine

Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Kate stopped reading in 2016. Since then, she’s tried to find her way back to it but something’s not clicking, and it’s left a book-shaped hole in her heart. Reading used to be something she really enjoyed, took pride in, and loved connecting with people over. On this episode of How To!, co-host Carvell Wallace brings in Maryanne Wolf, director of ⁠UCLA’s Center For Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice⁠ and author of the book, ⁠Reader, Come Home⁠. Maryanne explains the science behind the reading brain as well as how to deeply engage with books and make reading a habit again. If you liked this episode, check out: “⁠How To Put Down Your Phone⁠” Do you wonder how best to use your time? Send us a note at ⁠[email protected]⁠ or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the How To! show page. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Welcome to how to.
0:31.5	I'm Courtney Martin.
0:33.4	So, summer is well underway, and I don't know about you, but it's around this time where
0:37.8	I get nostalgic for the summer reading programs.
0:41.2	Remember those?
0:42.4	As a kid, there was almost nothing better than a trip to the library to look for a book
0:46.3	you wanted to read, not one assigned by a teacher, and sometimes you even got a prize,
0:51.7	you know, personal pizza just for reading.
0:54.7	Even though we've aged out of those reading programs, summer is still a wonderful time to sink your teeth into a good book.
1:01.6	Which is why we're bringing you this gem from the archives all about rediscovering your love for reading.
1:08.4	I'm going to turn things over to my co-host, Carvel Wallace, and we'll be back
1:11.6	next week with a brand new episode. Enjoy. Last week, I said to one of my colleagues, oh, did you
1:19.1	read so-and-so's new book? And he was like, the one that she published like four years ago.
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